Treffer: IBM to roll out enterprise patterns.

This article reports that International Business Machine Corp., has announced a set of new enterprise patterns to help make developers more productive and to promote the reuse of code and other assets. The new patterns are integrated with tools to automate the development of enterprise applications according to Angel Diaz, director for On Demand Operating Environment Technology Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Software Group. The initial patterns are generic patterns, but IBM, in Armonk, New York also plans to deliver patterns that simplify development in specific vertical segments according to Grant Larsen, a model-driven development strategist for IBM. The patterns are business delegate, which allows developers to easily connect to business services in the system, Session Facade, which improves the system's ability to respond to business changes by hiding system details, Data Access Object, which allows systems to integrate with many sources of data and information and Message Facade, which enables the system and users to continue while business service requests are processed in the background.